GodIsGoodAllTheTime

I think we human beings....

we like to ask a lot of questions.

And then without even waiting 

for an answer to be formulated

we get impatient.

Frustrated.

And then we ask God "Why?"

 ←This. 

Those words. 

All you need to know. 

JESUS 

is the answer.

So let's stop asking "why" and be 

faithful. 






For He never fails.

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Dude. You got it en plein dans le mille.

"Then you will know the truth, 

and the truth will set you free."

John 8:32

As for myself.

After years of scrambling through life

I've come to understand a little bit

of my freedom.

God gave us freedom.

Freedom to wander away from Him.

Freedom to choose our own ways instead of His.

He never stopped us.

We were free.

And then the greatest freedom comes

when we can choose to come back to Him.

In our ugliest and most undesirable state.

And we have the freedom to know
even with our little faith

that His door will always be opened.

Always.

Because of Love.

[Ok, yeah... maybe I'll have to reformulate all this in a few years again. Nighty.]

P.s: Keeping a journal is not only therapeutic.
It is also a means to keep in touch with your walk with God when you look back and read them with a sense of..... embarrassment. But guess what. It's a readable proof of how you've grown and how God has been working in your life! I'll may or may not post some extract here.....

Freedom.
For me it always meant being free from anything that holds me down
or prevents me from something I'd rather be
...isn't that selfish?
But freedom IS, in a sense, "constraining"
...seems contradictory, doesn't it?
Like if I really wanted (or pushed myself) to do something to achieve a certain goal
say, to study really hard to get that desired grade, (I'm a nerd what can I say)
I'm constraining myself by investing my time into my school work
(when I can very well be doing many other liberating things as freely as I want)
because I know that if I work hard,
I will achieve that sense of "freedom"
in the end.
Essentially, I've deliberately lost or given up my "freedom"
to get to a greater sense of "freedom".
I don't know what I'm trying to get at...
something along the lines of, giving up your freedom to find another freedom
I guess?...
And the ultimate freedom?
It's love.
CHRIST's love.

For a love relationship to be healthy there must be a mutual loss of independence. It can't be just one way. Both sides must say to the other, "I will adjust to you. I will change for you. I serve you even though it means a sacrifice for me." (...) At first sight, a relationship with God seems inherently dehumanizing. Surely it will have to be "one way," God's way. God, the divine being, has all the power. I must adjust to God-there is no way that God could adjust to and serve me. While this may be true in other forms of religion and belief in God, it's not true in Christianity. In the most radical way, God has adjusted to us-in his incarnation and atonement. In Jesus Christ he became a limited human being, vulnerable to suffering and death. On the cross, he submitted to our condition-as sinners-and died in our place to forgive us. In the most profound way, God has said to us, in Christ, "I will adjust to you. I will change for you. I'll serve you though it means a sacrifice for me."

---The Reason for God by Timothy Keller, p.50

Because of this love, the love of Christ...
I am trying to learn to give up my freedom to find freedom in him.

We are grateful always...

Because our whole life is a gift.

(Have to practice gratefulness over and over and over again until gratefulness becomes the life we live.)